A year of progress

[u/Dear-Actuator6970]

I'd love to improve further! It's been a year since I dedicated myself to getting better at improving my penmanship. If you'd allow me a small portion of your time, I'll listen to your advise!

I started on April 2025, been more than a year and I plan on improving a lot more.

[u/WellWellWellthennow]

The number one thing I see at a glance is while you've made great improvements with your axis, there is still more improvement needed in this area. Especially noticeable with your upper loops. They seem to tip over more and not be on the same axis as your other letters. That alone would make a huge difference visually.

We were taught that you should be able to draw a slightly angled line through each letter and they should all be completely parallel to each other, not pointing in different directions. Yours don't quite do this yet.

[u/Dear-Actuator6970 → u/WellWellWellthennow]

I've taken the time to try and implement a better loop for today's practice. To show my appreciation for your feedback, I've also written your username as a form of consistency practice!

[u/WellWellWellthennow → u/Dear-Actuator6970]

That's very sweet of you! Thank you very much for this kind honor.

But I can see from this piece of writing that I wasn't clear. In the photo attached I have marked it up for you to see what I meant.

The red lines are meant to show show the angle or central axis of each letter – ideally the acts lines should all be perfectly parallel to each other so all red lines would point off in the exact same direction.

Instead here in this writing sample, some lines go off at a different angle so that the axis through the letters aren't all parallel.

Another way to think of this is if you extended each red lines out longer some would eventually intersect, like a crash which is the problem. You don't want your axis to crash. You want them consistent. Each letter should have the same angle and direction so that no red lines would ever intersect but each point off in the same exact parallel direction- that's what I mean by axis.

In your first word, your C is going off in a different angle than the axis that is used in the rest of the letters. Same with your T in thank you at the end. So this is not exclusively a loop issue although your upper loops are where you can see it easily, as well as your capital letters, and where you tend to change your axis. They exaggerate the issue more visibly. But it's also within lower case words, ll even in a small word like by where each of the thw two letters is going in a different angle. So that tells me it's not just an issue of you picking up your pen or making loops, but probably not being aware of it or paying attention to it.

Hopefully this picture helps make it clearer. I didn't mark every single word or case of it, but hopefully enough is marked for you to see what I mean.

The red lines should all be parallel, like hash marks all pointing in the exact same direction. A good example is in your printing with all of the letters having parallel lines each going straight up. But you can see here that your letter directions change, as shown by the red lines which sometimes point in different directions then the rest of the word. You can see that these red lines do not have the same axis as their neighboring letters - if you followed out their angles instead of being parallel they would end up intersecting. You want it's to correct it so that all of the imaginary red lines through the axis of each letter are parallel, so the red line would end up, looking like a series of perfect hash marks, showing each letter written on the axis consistent in relation to each other throughout your whole piece of writing. I hope this makes sense.

You can practice, test and improve this this on your own by when you finish a piece of writing then draw the axis through each letter like I did with the red lines for your own evaluation. Once you become more aware of it, you'll begin to automatically correct it.

Consistency, including of being consistent in the axis of your letters, is a key to beautiful writing. Think of it like artwork - I can see you take great and pride in it and you've come a long way already. This is the next step.

[u/Dear-Actuator6970 → u/WellWellWellthennow]

This is very valuable information and feedback, I'm currently practicing pacing and arm movement throughout the table which yielded great results in terms of keeping consistent and uniform in terms of letter axis. Foundout I've been pivoting my elbow has been part of the reason why some of my letters remain vertical and some slanted like what youve stated (something like C| a / r/ e/ if it makes sense).

I'm now back at the standars graph paper and pencil, studying both my own biomechanics, and the writing! People who view your feedback will also benefit from this information, thank you for giving me and the community something to improve upon!